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Architect Raafat Majzoub relishes asking new clients how they like to shower, provoking everything from awkward excuse-mes to terrified expressions. The reaction, he argues, reveals just how much intimacy we have lost from bathing.
He rejects the label combat photographer, for he has no interest in fighting or killing. Instead he documents the effects of war on ordinary people, hoping his images add to a wider conversation.
Weighing four tonnes with looks to send children crying home, this monster truck began life as a Mercedes-Benz military vehicle for the Australian Army. Then the lunatics at AMG were let loose to tinker.
A whirlwind weekend in Macau takes in Lord Stow's celebrated egg tarts, with their crème brûlée finish, and the dazzling House of Dancing Water, the latest spectacle from Cirque du Soleil's Franco Dragone.
Bernard Khoury may hold a bleak view of our region, but he has not given up on this part of the world. Instead he fights on against the corporate machine he blames for our architectural inadequacies.
Maximilian Busser's instinct for collaboration runs deep. Having shaped Harry Winston's Opus Series, with each model conceived by a different designer, he carried that openness to outside watchmakers into the founding of MB&F.
Amid the leather armchairs and tapestries of a Parisian members' lounge, the famously unconventional Lidewij Edelkoort discusses future global trends, big ideas and the technologically advanced faux fur unveiled during Design Week.
Author and journalist Rose George explains how a coffee-table book on excreta at COLORS magazine sparked a deeper fascination with sewage, toilets and waste, and the simple question she set out to answer.
Rachida Dati is immediately imposing: self-confident, strikingly handsome and risen from an Arab workman's daughter to one of France's most senior politicians. We meet the former justice minister at her Left Bank office.
Padlocked leather straps, Swarovski-studded collars, spiked visors and metal gloves fill Assaad Awad's Madrid atelier. It might resemble an S&M club, yet there is serious craft and daring artistry behind every provocative piece.
Ahead of meeting chief executive Garry Hogarth, we preview Agent Provocateur's erotic autumn-winter collection at its Mayfair flagship, where the famous baby-pink housecoat hints at a brand caught between its past and its future.
The Egyptian feminist writer, activist, physician and psychiatrist, Nawal El Saadawi, has braved prison, exile and death threats in her fight against female oppression. It’s a fight she wants to see through to the end. The first thing Nawal El Saadawi does when we speak for the first ti…